Hi Marcia,
There isn't a built in functionallity for this in Word. Speech recognition/dictation generally has to be trained and relies on data
from both the training of a specific person and on a specific hardware configuration to be accurate.
There are 3rd party packages that can probably do this. You may want to check with the folks in the Speech discussion group as well
through the links below.
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I'm betting the answer is no, but I'm asking anyway!
Is there an interface between Windows Audio Player and Word Voice
Recognition technologies?>>
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Please let us know if this has helped,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.speech.desktop
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.speech.desktop
B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com